http://www.thoughtremixer.com/aaron-mcgruder-i-never-said-barack-obama-was-not-black/ Remixing Thoughts Daily... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:09:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.thoughtremixer.com/aaron-mcgruder-i-never-said-barack-obama-was-not-black/comment-page-1/#comment-1778 GeekyChic Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:47:23 +0000 http://www.thoughtremixer.com/aaron-mcgruder-i-never-said-barack-obama-was-not-black/#comment-1778 Indeed. I grew up in NYC in a very West Indian part of Queens, and there is a different sense of heritage I notice w/ my Jamaican, Hatian, Guyanese, etc. friends. Of course we're all black -- but we didn't all come from the same exact kind of struggle and that plays out in everything from who we date, to what we eat, to our family structures, to our work ethic. Glad you cleared that up, though. I'd heard snippets of the Aaron McGruder thing, and my appreciation of him had been knocked down a notch. Indeed. I grew up in NYC in a very West Indian part of Queens, and there is a different sense of heritage I notice w/ my Jamaican, Hatian, Guyanese, etc. friends. Of course we're all black — but we didn't all come from the same exact kind of struggle and that plays out in everything from who we date, to what we eat, to our family structures, to our work ethic. Glad you cleared that up, though. I'd heard snippets of the Aaron McGruder thing, and my appreciation of him had been knocked down a notch.

]]> http://www.thoughtremixer.com/aaron-mcgruder-i-never-said-barack-obama-was-not-black/comment-page-1/#comment-1765 iluvblackwomen Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:47:43 +0000 http://www.thoughtremixer.com/aaron-mcgruder-i-never-said-barack-obama-was-not-black/#comment-1765 I totally agree with McGruder! He is correct there is a big difference between a descendant of a slave and being a child of an immigrant. I totally agree with McGruder! He is correct there is a big difference between a descendant of a slave and being a child of an immigrant.

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